orders the Bishop of
Bangor and the assize judges to look into it. _Cal.
St. P., Dom., 1611-1618_, 53.
1611. Wm. Bate, indicted twenty years before for practising
invocation, etc., for finding treasure, pardoned. _Ibid._, 29.
1611. Thirsk, Yorkshire. Elizabeth Cooke presented by quarter
sessions for slight crime related to witchcraft.
_North Riding Record Soc._, I, 213.
1612. Lancaster. Margaret Pearson, who in 1612 was sentenced
to a year's imprisonment and the pillory, had
been twice tried before, once for killing, and once for
bewitching a neighbor. Potts, _Wonderfull Discoverie
of Witches in the countie of Lancaster_
(Chetham Soc., 1845).
1612. Lancaster. Ten persons of Pendle sentenced to death,
one to a year's imprisonment; eight acquitted including
three women of Salmesbury. Potts, _Wonderfull
Discoverie of Witches_, Chetham Soc., 1845.
But _cf._ Cooper's words (_Mystery of Witchcraft,
1617_), 15.
1612. York. Jennet Preston sentenced to death. Potts,
_Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches_.
1612. Northampton. At least four women and one man
hanged. Many others accused, one of whom died in
gaol. _The Witches of Northamptonshire_, 1612; also
Brit Mus., Sloane MSS., 972, fol. 7.
1613. Bedford. Mother Sutton and Mary Sutton, her daughter,
of Milton Miles hanged. _Witches Apprehended,
Examined and Executed_, 1613. See app. A, Sec. 3,
for mention of another pamphlet on the same subject,
_A Booke of the Wytches lately condemned and
executed_. See also _The Wonderful Discoverie of ...
Margaret and Phillip Flower_, preface, and Richard
Bernard, _Guide to Grand Jurymen_, III.
1613. Wilts. Margaret Pilton of Warminster, accused at
quarter sessions, probably released. _Hist. MSS.
Comm. Reports, Various_, I, 86-87.
1614. Middlesex. Dorothy Magick of St. Andrew's in Holborn
sentenced to a year's imprisonment and four
appearances in the pillory. _Middlesex County Records_,
II, 91, 218.
1615. Middlesex. Joan Hunt of Hampstead, who had been,
along with her husband, twice tried and acquitted,
and whose accuser had been ordered to ask forgiveness,
sentenced to be hanged. _Middlesex County
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